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I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

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Amy Tan
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: February 19
Essayist
Film Writer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Oakland
California
Amy Ruth Tan
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Vagabond
Realizing
Paving
Path
Vagabonds
Rich
Fairy
Felt
Passed
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Dust
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Soon
World
Gold
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